Category: Photography
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In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings – The New York Times
In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/magazine/caravaggio.html The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering.
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Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos using Newspaper Navigator!
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos using Newspaper Navigator!
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How to Add Words to Pictures | Conscientious Photography Magazine
How to Add Words to Pictures via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/add-words-to-pictures/ How do you go tackle writing about your photographs? This question poses possibly the most vexing challenge for most photographers. I keep coming back to it because I write about other people’s pictures, and I listen to or read what photographers say or write…
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“I’m Always on Their Side”: Mary Ellen Mark’s Top Quotes on Photography | AnOther
“I’m Always on Their Side”: Mary Ellen Mark’s Top Quotes on Photography via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12804/mary-ellen-mark-quotes-book-of-everything-steidl-ward-81-streetwise As Steidl publishes an extensive tome on Mary Ellen Mark’s incomparable photographic career, a selection of the late photographer’s own thoughts on her chosen medium
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The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog
The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog Find out which women in sports photography inspire PhotoShelter members Sarah Sachs, Jennifer Stewart, Abbie Parr and Casey Brooke. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/09/women-in-sports-photography-celebration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 As live sports begin to make a comeback, we want to take this opportunity to talk about…
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The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths – The New York Times
The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths Heji Shin’s striking, discomfiting work poses an important question for the contemporary age: What do we expect art to do, and does the artist have a responsibility to do it? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/t-magazine/heji-shin-photographer-babies.html Heji Shin’s striking, discomfiting work poses an important question for the contemporary age: What do we expect art…
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The Photographer Peeking at Your Phone | The New Yorker
The Photographer Peeking at Your Phone Jeff Mermelstein’s photo collection “#nyc” captures the quotidian dramas taking place on the phone screens of unsuspecting strangers. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photographer-peeking-at-your-phone In October of 2017, the photographer Jeff Mermelstein, who has been taking pictures of New York City street life since the early nineteen-eighties, was walking in…
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Joel Meyerowitz’s Five Tips for Making Great Street Photographs | AnOther
Joel Meyerowitz’s Five Tips for Making Great Street Photographs via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12772/joel-meyerowitz-guide-to-photography-how-i-make-photographs-book Legendary image-maker Joel Meyerowitz shares his advice for aspiring photographers, as his new book How I Make Photographs is published
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Photography Workshops in 2020: Where Do We Go From Here? – PhotoShelter Blog
Photography Workshops in 2020: Where Do We Go From Here? – PhotoShelter Blog Find out how major photography workshop organizations have changed their 2020 plans due to COVID-19. Plus, take a look at who’s still in session. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/08/2020-photography-workshops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 While we typically bring you a list of 40+ workshops to consider, we’re changing…
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Selling Your Photography Just Got Easier with Google Image Licensing – PhotoShelter Blog
Selling Your Photography Just Got Easier with Google Image Licensing – PhotoShelter Blog PhotoShelter General Manager Grover Sanschagrin explains Google’s new Image Licensing program and how to get set up to sell your photography. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/08/sell-photos-with-google-image-licensing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 I am excited about the new Google Image Licensing program, and you should be too. Let me…
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Photographers on Photographers: Saleem Ahmed in Conversation With Baljit Singh | LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Saleem Ahmed in Conversation With Baljit Singh Baljit Singh and I are Internet friends. We haven’t met in real life, nor do we really message each other all that often. I only know her through the details that she shares — the visuals she posts and the words she writes. I think…
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The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country – The New York Times
The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/t-magazine/amber-pinkerton-photography.html The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity.
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this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture
this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas Kuruganti’s five day experiment turned the personal public, exploring the fluidity of narrative and the boundaries of the archive via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/srinivas-kuruganti-this-archive-has-no-legs Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas…
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Limiting and Reflecting on my Digital Output – by Simon King – 35mmc
Limiting and Reflecting on my Digital Output – by Simon King Before the widespread use of recorded sound, if you were a music aficionado with a favored piece of baroque music you would be lucky if you heard it more than a handful of times in your lifetime. The circumstances of the orchestra necessary to…
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The photography school for children on the Syrian border
The photography school for children on the Syrian border Sirkhane Darkroom teaches vulnerable communities how the act of documentation can help them to process their own experience. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/sirkhane-darkroom-photography-school-syria-turkey/ As the Director of Sirkhane Darkroom, photographer Serbest Salih teaches young people from vulnerable communities – many of them refugees – how to use…
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Justine Kurland Reflects on Her Photographs of Teenage Girl Runaways – Aperture Foundation NY
Justine Kurland Reflects on Her Photographs of Teenage Girl Runaways Between 1997 and 2002, the photographer portrayed teenage girls as imagined rebels, offering a radical vision of community and feminism against the masculine myth of the American landscape. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/justine-kurland-girl-pictures/ Between 1997 and 2002, the photographer portrayed teenage girls as imagined rebels,…
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Magnum Photos Nominates Five Photographers to Join Its Organization
Magnum Photos Nominates Five Photographers to Join Its Organization Magnum, which is entirely owned by photographers, started its historic membership program back in 1955. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/574749/magnum-photos-nominates-five-photographers-to-join-organization/ This year, Magnum presents five new prospects, who will first join the organization as nominees before potentially gaining admission to the Magnum collective as lifelong members. The international…
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What I Learned at the Most Instagrammed Outdoor Places | Outside Online
What I Learned from Visiting the Most Instagrammed Outdoor Places Are social media and selfie culture killing the outdoors? Nah… but as a visit to some overshared spots reveals, they’re challenging our notions about whether there’s a right way to appreciate nature—and who gets to do it. via Outside Online: https://www.outsideonline.com/2415324/instagram-social-media-geotagging-outdoors-oversharing Are social media and…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 26 June 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 26 June 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Australia’s premier photo collective Oculi welcomes nine new members and the exhibition APA Stories competition which celebrates long… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-26-june-2020/ Australia’s premier photo collective has doubled its membership with the announcement of nine new members:
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80+ Black Photographers Come Together for a Historic Print Sale – Feature Shoot
80+ Black Photographers Come Together for a Historic Print Sale – Feature Shoot The See in Black collective, a coalition of 80 Black photographers dedicated to uplifting and advocating for Black visibility, is hosting a limited, two-week print sale, with support from Artifact… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/06/80-black-photographers-come-together-for-a-historic-print-sale/ The See in Black collective, a coalition of…